A very significant attack has been waged on SP in two full page articles over two days by the most read newspaper in Australia, the Melbourne Herald Sun. Read the latest Tony Abbott/Herald Sun Red Scare about the Defend and Extend Medicare campaign in todays paper.

Chris Flood, a Socialist Party member from Lewisham won a council by-election in his area yesterday winning a stunning 32% of the vote. He joins Ian Page, the other Socialist Party councillor on the local council.
The Socialist Party now has the same number of councillors as the Tories on the local council!